What would happen if you put a baseball-sized piece of neutron star on the Earth? Would it fall to the core of the Earth and ...

Scientists have developed the longest and most complex simulation to date of a binary neutron star collision that results in ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

Binary neutron star mergers, cosmic collisions between two very dense stellar remnants made up predominantly of neutrons, ...

Neutron stars can have a resounding impact around the universe. Scientists recently announced the first detection of gravitational waves created by two neutron stars smashing into each other. 1:33 ...

With the highest density of any known space object, neutron stars can beam radiation across the galaxy. (Image credit: by Karl Tate, Infographics Artist) ...

For astrophysicists, neutron stars stand out as objects of irresistible fascination — perhaps, in part, because of how difficult they are to decipher. But calculations conducted on the Frontier ...

The density of neutron stars is so high that one cubic inch (16 cubic centimeters) weighs over 10 billion tons. Get the Space.com Newsletter.

But things appear much differently for 4U 0142+61, which astronomers theorize had a violent history, even for a neutron star. It actually is solid, or so it appears. Approximately 100,000 years ...

A typical neutron star has a mass a few times the mass of the sun, compressed into a region only a dozen kilometers across. In the outermost layers of neutron stars, the density is billions of ...

Neutron stars may contain free quarks. From an astrophysical perspective, the possibility of deconfined quark matter existing in neutron star cores raises a whole host of intriguing new questions, ...